The Archive · 1928

Clearing Outlaws from Kuangtung

Military Posts Throughout the e Province to Keep the Reds: from Reviving: Canton's Happy Days of Peace Fuost Ove OWN

Canton, May 1

(Delayed transit).

Pang Pai likened the Cantonese incense which, when Li mosquitos away, but Which, in the course of time, burns out, allowing the mosquitos to come ack in swarms as thick as eve By the insects, Pang Pai, the Hailu. fang bandit chieftain: had reference to the Red soldiers, who, he believes, need only keep clear of districts where, for the time being, the military units happen to be momentarily superior in number to the radical fighting forces, Tu that direction has Lain the arrest during the few weeks that Marshal Li was up north threw the robbers' camps into a state of consternation and confusion fron which the criminals have not recovered. So long as the head of the Kuangtung government was away from the city, the iron fist of tarism ruled, and merey and com passion went into hiding.

Terror to Evil-doers Nearly every evening during those several weeks, soldiers and policemen working together enforced martial law regulations after sundown. On several occasions after weakness of the government. Punitive expeditions galore have marched to sore spots in the pro-Vince, and have furnished relief to the inhabitants for a few short days; but it has always been a ease of "they went right in, and turned around and marched' right out again." And as the tines of the government troops have melted Away, the food of radicalism has rushed forward and inundated the territory that have just the; abandoned.

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